Predicting work-related disability and medical cost outcomes: a comparison of injury severity scoring methods

JM Sears, L Blanar, SM Bowman - Injury, 2014 - Elsevier
Introduction Acute work-related trauma is a leading cause of death and disability among US
workers. Occupational health services researchers have described the pressing need to …

Development and maturation of the occupational health services research field in the United States over the past 25 years: Challenges and opportunities for the future

JM Sears, TM Wickizer, GM Franklin… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Work is an important social determinant of health; unfortunately, work‐related injuries
remain prevalent, can have devastating impact on worker health, and can impose heavy …

[HTML][HTML] Factors associated with the severity of fatal accidents in construction workers

F Khodabandeh, E Kabir-Mokamelkhah… - Medical journal of the …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Construction work (building houses, roads, workplaces, and repairing and
maintaining infrastructures) is a dangerous land-based job. This includes many hazardous …

Predicting work-related disability and medical cost outcomes: estimating injury severity scores from workers' compensation data

JM Sears, L Blanar, SM Bowman, D Adams… - Journal of occupational …, 2013 - Springer
Purpose Acute work-related trauma is a leading cause of death and disability among US
workers. The research objectives were to assess:(1) the feasibility of estimating Abbreviated …

Fatal occupational injuries among US law enforcement officers: a comparison of national surveillance systems

HM Tiesman, DI Swedler, S Konda… - American journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Background This study describes and compares the three surveillance systems used to
record occupational injury fatalities among US law enforcement officers (LEOs). Methods …

Characteristics of work-related fatal and hospitalised injuries not captured in workers' compensation data

M Koehoorn, L Tamburic, F Xu, H Alamgir… - Occupational and …, 2015 - oem.bmj.com
Objectives (1) To identify work-related fatal and non-fatal hospitalised injuries using multiple
data sources,(2) to compare case-ascertainment from external data sources with accepted …

The burden of traumatic brain injury among adolescent and young adult workers in Washington State

JM Graves, JM Sears, MS Vavilala, FP Rivara - Journal of safety research, 2013 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: This study describes injury characteristics and costs of work-related traumatic
brain injury (WRTBI) among 16-24year olds in Washington State between 1998 and 2008 …

Case identification of work-related traumatic brain injury using the occupational injury and illness classification system

JM Sears, JM Graves, L Blanar… - Journal of occupational …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the most common, costly, and disabling
occupational injuries. Objectives included determining whether work-related TBI could be …

Who Pays for Work‐R elated Traumatic Injuries? Payer Distribution in Washington State by Ethnicity, Injury Severity, and Year (1998–2008)

JM Sears, SM Bowman, D Adams… - American journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Background Acute work‐related trauma is a leading cause of death and disability for US
workers but it is difficult to obtain information about injured workers not covered by workers' …

A new method to classify injury severity by diagnosis: validation using workers' compensation and trauma registry data

JM Sears, SM Bowman, M Rotert… - Journal of occupational …, 2015 - Springer
Purpose Acute work-related trauma is a leading cause of death and disability among US
workers. Existing methods to estimate injury severity have important limitations. This study …